Sub-great

Rating: 5/10 (30 June 2017)

This is my first review, so bear with me.
I overall liked the movie, but I felt ultimately displeased by the end, especially after reading some of the other reviews. (I created an IMDb account just so I could write this review!) I don't think it's as genius as many think. Sure, fast-moving infected--a type of neo-zombie--is a cool idea, but I just didn't find it very scary. I keep thinking of Day of the Dead, because in it the soldiers all turn crazy, too.
It's like Selena and Jim swap characters in the end. At first, Jim's kinda wimpy but at the end he suddenly turns into a stealth ninja. And Selena is all tough at the beginning but then turns into a helpless damsel in distress for no reason. Seems like there's a lot of incontinuity in this film. I could keep nitpicking, but others already have, and besides, I liked the "normality" line a lot. That was thought-provoking ("humans killing humans is the normality").
It's not about the infected so much as human nature in times of crisis. Instead of working together, they fight to the death. I like these ideas, I just didn't like how it was done. The whole premise of 28 days later is a plot hole, skipping 28 days. And then they do it again at the end! Seems like a very convenient and easy plot device to me. Jim is much more likely to die or get killed in that hospital then wake up and wander. I mean, if the infected have been out for 28 days, you'd think they'd be hungry and lookin' for some meat and find the skinny naked dude. Guess not.
A good movie, I give it an even split right-down-the-middle. Just not my "cup of tea," I s'pose.